2015-present Workshop Instructor/Designer, Chicago IL Design and executing digital/new media and game design workshops for adults, kids and teens. These programs take place over 2-3 days and end with students creating projects thatcan be anything from an interactive website to a board game to a 3D printed sculpture.

2015 “Science, Art, and Play ” Chicago Artist’s Month, Intuiteens, Chicago ILA lecture on the collaboration of games, art, and science for a group of teenagers through Intuit. After the lecture, ran a workshop for the teens to prototype a game about the process of reclaming phosphorus in the water cycle.

2015 “Bitter Pills: Gaming and Chronic Invisible Illness,” Northwestern University Center for Healthcare Studies, Evanston, IL Northwestern University's Center for Healthcare Studies holds a series of seminars with professionals who are dedicated to changing the face of the healthcare industry. Held by Professor Bruce Lambert, I discussed my board game Bitter Pills and how difficult it is to share experiences with chronic illness. Students also got to play the game and discuss how to intregrate it into healthcare scenarios.

2015“Gaming for Good,”Columbia College Interactive Arts and Media Department, Chicago, ILOne of the many classes offered through the Interactive Arts and Media department is Interactive Culture, a class about how interactive media is used to shape cultures around the world. I was asked to come to speak to the class by professor Eden Unluata on how games can act as dialogues about first person experiences and how they are a great communication tool when words alone won't suffice.

2014 “Cards for Humanity: Audience/Artist Interaction through Gameplay,”Engaging Taboos: Creating Participatory Interventions, panelist and co-organizer, People in Rooms Doing Things, Columbia College, Chicago ILPeople in Rooms Doing Things was a conference where interdisciplinary artists described their methods and practice in various disciplines. Engaging Taboos addressed the artistic practices of four artists working in community and interactive art techniques.

2014 THATCamp, Student Organizer and Assistant to Professor Anne Swartz,Savannah College of Art and Design, College Art Association Annual Conference, Columbia College, Chicago ILTHATCamp is a humanities un-conference at CAA every year that is curated by participants of the 3-day event. As Student Organizer I coordinated efforts between CAA and Columbia College Chicago and updated website and Twitter during event.

2010 Did You Know?, 20x2 (Presented in part by South by Southwest), Schuba's Tavern, Chicago IL20x2 gives 20 speakers 2 minutes to answer one question: in this case, "Did you know?" I spoke for 2 minutes about the 10 things you probably didn't know about going to art school and discovering your passion for art.